Too stupid to breathe: Lloyd McDonald

I'm starting to think that I could build an entire blog off of asinine letters to the editor, even just those here in America's Wang™. We certainly have more than our share of mouth-breathing Neanderthal lunatics who unfortunately can figure out how to send an email and thus display their astonishing stupidity for the world to see.

We've got another example of that today, and of all the idiotic fucktards who've ever been lampooned on this sucky blog, this guy may be the idiotic fucktardiest. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm disgusted to present Lloyd McDonald of Indialantic, Fla.:

Teachers should take 5% pay cut

Brevard County teachers are wringing their hands for the lack of money to fund education, yet I haven’t heard of one teacher who is willing to take a 5 percent pay cut to set an example.

No, they will watch their fellow teachers lose their jobs, see sports eliminated, and anticipate larger class sizes and elimination of buses, but teachers and their unions won’t discuss pay cuts as a partial solution to the educational financial crisis.

And what about the teachers’ obscene pension benefits, which cost the taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars each year?

Maybe if the teachers were willing to step up to the plate, the rest of the citizenry would be more willing to shoulder more taxes.

Lloyd McDonald
Indialantic

Mr. McDonald, are you a product of public schools? No, strike that: are you a resident of this planet? Because if you are, and you think public school teachers are overpaid, well, then you're too stupid even to be recognized as "too stupid to breathe." Nope, if you think that, then you're officially a fucking moron.

Holy fuck. I've heard of dumbass conservatives before, but this guy is the icing on the asshole wingnut cake. Look, Mr. McDonald, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know that teachers are notoriously underpaid ... traditionally, they're considered among the most underpaid professions of all. Asking teachers to take a pay cut is the most ignorant, insensitive thing I've heard since Drunky McStagger urged America to cure our economic ills by going shopping.

As for "obscene pension benefits," teachers get a pension and other benefits (hardly "obscene" in amount, Lloyd, you douchebag) in large part because their salaries are so woefully inadequate. I used to be a public school teacher, Mr. McDonald, so I know what I'm talking about ... unlike you, sir. Your attitudes and those like yours, like the person whose comment I saw yesterday on television saying that he wouldn't pay more taxes for schools because he didn't have children in school, are a big reason why the country is in the mess we're in today, economically, culturally, and in comparison to other countries.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: conservatism is a fundamentally selfish ideology. And whether you have kids in schools or not, you should know teachers work far harder than their salaries justify ... and that spending money on education now brings significant long-term benefits, like keeping more kids out of jail, helping them learn trades and professions to contribute to the economy, and making them integral, valuable members of a civilized society. Do you have, or have you had, children in public schools, Mr. McDonald? I have children in public schools -- in Brevard County, no less -- and that gives me some insight on the subject ... insight you most likely lack. You're nothing but a selfish, ignorant imbecile, Mr. McDonald, and I'd gladly say that to your smug face if I have the chance.

Maybe you'll remember your deplorable attitudes in your dotage, Mr. McDonald. And maybe you'll be cared for by a doctor who was educated in part by one of those "obscenely" compensated teachers. And maybe, just maybe, you'll realize the critical service teachers provide in America ... and you'll take a moment to say thanks. Because right now, the only thing you say by sharing your despicable, ludicrous thoughts is that you're too stupid to breathe.